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This new translation includes Kafka's two published collections, A Country Doctor and A Hunger Artist with other, uncollected stories, aphorisms, and parables that have become part of the Kafka canon. Enigmatic, satirical, often bleakly humorous, the stories meditate on art and artists and the human experience. Includes an introduction and notes.Read more...

The aeroplanes at Brescia --
A country doctor: little tales. The new advocate. A country doctor. In the gallery. An ancient manuscript. Before the law. Jackals and Arabs. A visit to the mine. The next village. A message from the emperor. Odradek, or cares of a householder. Eleven sons. A brother's murder. A dream. A report to an academy --
The rider on the coal-scuttle --
A hunger artist: four stories. First sorrow. A little woman. A hunger artist. Josefine, the singer or the mouse-people --
Blumfeld, an elderly bachelor --
At the building of the Great Wall of China --
The huntsman Gracchus --
Investigations of a dog --
The burrow --
Selected shorter pieces. The bridge. The knock at the courtyard gate. The truth about Sancho Panza. The spinning-top. Cat and mouse. On parables. Give it up! --
Aphorisms.